Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'd like to continue, like my colleagues, on the auditor general's report with respect to the child and family services. Mr. Speaker, it's not that just things are getting worse. It's the fact that we can't seem to realize or recognize how much worse they're getting.

Mr. Speaker, if I was, in theory, to provide an armchair diagnosis on this government, I would say it's somewhere between the Frank Sinatra stubbornness of doing it my way or the ODD, that's the oppositional defiant disorder, Mr. Speaker, because the government doesn't seem to want to take advice and realize the concerns we're raising.

Mr. Speaker, if the 2026 Auditor General's Report wasn't just bad enough, again I quote the former Minister in 2028, it was gut-wrenching, that report. Sorry, I said 2028, my apologies, I meant 2018. And the 2014 report was an abysmal failure. That in itself should have been a call to action to the facts, if anything the baseline. One would stand to wonder, repeatedly, doesn't the auditor general have more important files to go to? No, apparently this is the file they keep coming back to and saying things aren't getting better and no one seems to be changing that.

Mr. Speaker, you know when things go wrong when the government spends more time defending how great they are and the Minister, and I think they've lost focus. And the focus is this:

The razor focus we have, along this side of the room, at least most of us I should say, is the kids that are the victims of this process. And while we hear things like oh, everything's fine, we got modest improvements. Well, the auditor general is the gold standard of reports. This is an abysmal failure, Mr. Speaker. So let us get on the vanguard of solutions and let's turn inaction to action, Mr. Speaker.

Now, I personally am going to say they haven't failed me; they've disappointed me. But they failed the children that are intended to be in the custody. And when I look to the Minister, Mr. Speaker, and say she's disappointed me, again I say she was doing a heroic job in the four years she was a Member. So what happened that turned the lights out on this issue? So the Minister has been in charge of this issue for 909 days. I say to this, if you're not interested in making things improvement, ask for a shuffle, Mr. Speaker. And I want to finish by sincerely saying I thank the Minister for joining us today so we can deal with this issue face to face.